3 NY Mets offseason achievements where they deserve an A+ grade so far

It’s too soon to hand out any official offseason grades to the New York Mets. Call this a first semester look into some of the areas where they have done well.

This hasn’t been a perfect offseason for New York, but it’s early and there’s still time to read the cliff’s notes or flirt with the right classmate to let you cheat off their paper. Better yet, add a top of the rotation arm and get your big power bat.

1) Give the Mets an A+ for reeling in their big fish, Juan Soto

Giving the Mets anything but an A+ for signing Juan Soto is handing out a bad grade for the sake of it. Soto changes the Mets on the field and off. His record-breaking contract proved Steve Cohen is a baller, shot caller, and brawler when it comes to building a super team.

It’s only money spent on Soto. Going to the outer limits, stealing him from the New York Yankees, and winning this legendary sweepstakes deserves the reddest Sharpie you have with an extra large plus sign beside it; the kind that would have cult leaders bowing and devoting their life to the cloth.

Not quite “the missing piece” or a ball club in need of much more, he’s a different kind of player. Soto is the one absent from the franchise in far too many past seasons.

Who cares if it was an overpay, as some pundits shared after the fact when, if he had gone elsewhere, they would’ve LOL'd at the Mets?

Signing Soto was a win in every way. The structure of the contract, with some clauses to keep him in the near future with only a little more of Cohen’s money added on, makes it feel even sweeter.